When it comes to laptops I just cannot go back to standard laptops. They might be cheaper but they are also lacking a lot compared to Mac. First, majority of standard laptops has just awful screens. Mac had been for some time pretty much the only laptop with good 4K screen (anyway Mac screens are better in general). When you get used to Retina screen, you will see pixels on other screens. Second, standard laptops have useless touchpads that give me a headache when I try to use them. When you get used to Mac touchpad and go back to a standard laptop touchpad, it feels like someone cut off a few of your fingers. Then, obviously every standard laptop comes with a crap called Windows. Of course you can get rid of it and switch to Linux, but many of drivers are suboptimal or even non-existent in Linux.